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@tsarstepan,

Homecoming prank: Girl nominated for queen as joke has comeuppance (+video)
A homecoming prank played on Michigan high school sophomore Whitney Kropp, is turned around. Her comeuppance is a community rallying to give her free dinner, photos, hair and nail design, shoes, gown, and tiara for Saturday's dance.
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2012/0926/Homecoming-prank-Girl-nominated-for-queen-as-joke-has-comeuppance-video
Just mind the really obvious and glaring grammatical errors/typos that are rare in the very professional newspaper.

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@tsarstepan,

Speaking of oddities:

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Her comeuppance is a community rallying to give her free dinner, photos, hair and nail design, shoes, gown, and tiara for Saturday's dance.

This is the oddest use of the word comeuppance ever printed, unless I am wrong. Is there a non-pejorative use of the word?

Joe(He got his just deserts when he won the lottery.)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

Definition I found says:

come·up·pance
[kuhm-uhp-uhns] Show IPA
noun Informal .
deserved reward or just deserts, usually unpleasant: He finally got his comeuppance for his misbehavior.

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@DrewDad,

I have to remember that the current crop of newspaper writers graduated from the American education system in the past ten years. I know someone who heads the Education Department of a major university; he is near tears every year as he reads the applicant letters.

Joe(They are tears of hysterical laughter.) Nation

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The online etymological dictionary lists comeuppance (with the variant spelling comeupance) as first appearing in 1859.

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@Setanta,

Yes. Comeuppance is a perfectly good, old and useful word which in this case is being used incorrectly.

Getting her comeuppance does not mean that things got better for her. Right?

Joe(Or it shouldn't at any rate.)Nation

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Take a long walk off a short (Google) pier.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/25/google-unveils-first-ever-underwater-street-view-and-its-amazing/

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@Joe Nation,

Joe Nation wrote:

Yes. Comeuppance is a perfectly good, old and useful word which in this case is being used incorrectly.

Other mistakes in the Associated Press article:

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(In a similar incident in Pacifc, Mo., the motives of fellow students who voted into a highs school homecoming court a teen with attention deficit disorder and conditions that have her lagging soccially and without friends are being questions. Rickie and Tonya Tanner wanted to feel excitement when their 15-year-old came home with the news she'd been chosen for the homecoming court, but they say, deep down, they felt something wasn't right. Administrators at Pacific High School in the Meramec Valley School District in Missouri are now investigating the intentions of sophomores who voted for homecoming court members.)

Plus, does the entire paragraph really need to be in parentheses?

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@tsarstepan,

But wait there's more:

(In a similar incident in Pacifc, Mo., the motives of fellow students who voted into a highs school homecoming court a teen with attention deficit disorder and conditions that have her lagging soccially and without friends are being questions. Rickie and Tonya Tanner wanted to feel excitement when their 15-year-old came home with the news she'd been chosen for the homecoming court, but they say, deep down, they felt something wasn't right. Administrators at Pacific High School in the Meramec Valley School District in Missouri are now investigating the intentions of sophomores who voted for homecoming court members.)

Times are hard in the local news business these days, maybe the Associated Press picked up the story from the HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER and just ran with it.

Joe(I are an journalisto loco)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

Quote:

This is the oddest use of the word comeuppance ever printed, unless I am wrong. Is there a non-pejorative use of the word?

It seems a word was left out, Joe.

Her tormenters' comeuppance ...

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@Joe Nation,

This is just another series of examples wherein jopurnalism has succumbed to crap scavengedfrom blogs and printed without any competent editing. Im seeing major typos in Headlines in papers like the Philly Inquirer, NYT, and the WSJ. Dont matter none what is your spin, they all are ******* up regularly.

(Thass why I dont even bother with spell checks, Im is a blogger)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/bagel-head-forehead-injections-japan-saline_n_1916188.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Come here, baby, I want to stroke your bagel.

Joe(Hurry, we only have 16 hours )Nation

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The plot of the next Indiana Jones movie revealed:
Indiana Jones plot comes to life as Nazi Buddha revealed to be carved from meteorite
The Nazi-backed venture which discovered the statue set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race — a cornerstone of the Nazis' racist ideology.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0928/Indiana-Jones-plot-comes-to-life-as-Nazi-Buddha-revealed-to-be-carved-from-meteorite

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@Joe Nation,

I agree--i've always understood it to mean just desserts.

I'll have the pumpkin pie with whipped cream, please.

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Hard-Boiled: Wife-Cooking Chef Found Guilty
http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/09/chef-cooks-wife-found-guilty.html?e=grubstreet--20120928

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@tsarstepan,

What kind of wine do you serve with baked wife, red or white??

Joe(and a small green salad)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

Klingon blood wine

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QR Codes For Headstones Keep Dearly Departed Close

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/29/qrcodes_graves2_wide-4c83a16ff398f39cdd9a1412cdde94cea9c48a2c.jpg

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/29/162011967/qr-codes-for-headstones-keep-dearly-departed-close

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@tsarstepan,

So you can take your personal device with you but not your money.

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